Re: [WISPA] Cost of bandwidth

2009-03-21 Thread rghering
In my neck of the woods there is no dark fiber for rent, and I'm 185 miles from the nearest fiber facility. We have to backhaul a DS3 nearly 50 miles, then cross connect it into Qwest land from CenturyTel land into the qwest ATM cloud. THEN I have a fat UBR pipe to a Tier 2. I have no other

Re: [WISPA] grant funds ideas

2009-03-03 Thread rghering
If WISPA was to get input on the grant process, I would like to see more home town WISP's ans ISP's get first hand at the funding. Why? simple. Telco's get to have their hands in Gov money 365 days a year. Its called the high cost fund. With that the home town WISP's and ISP's, should be